Le Havre  PG (Mild themes and infrequent coarse language )

Rating PG (Mild themes and infrequent coarse language )

Release DateThursday, 29 March 2012

Length 1hrs 33min

Main Cast André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel, Elina Salo, Evelyne Didi, Quoc-dung Nguyen , Laika , François Monnié, Roberto Piazza , Pierre Étaix, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Movie DirectorAki Kaurismäki

Distributor

A shoeshiner working on the streets witnesses an illegal immigrant boy escaping from the police and sets out to help him elude the locals. This French comedy from director Aki Kaurismäki was the winner of the International Critics Prize at Cannes 2011. "Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre... he has buried his dreams of a literary breakthrough and lives happily within the triangle of his favourite bar, his shoe-shining work, and his wife Arletty, when fate suddenly throws in his path an underage immigrant refugee from darkest Africa. As Arletty at the same time gets seriously ill, Marcel has to rise against the cold wall of human indifference with his only weapon: innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of the people of his quartier. Against him stands the whole blind machinery of the Western constitutionally governed state, this time represented by the dragnet of the police, moment by moment drawing closer around the refugee boy." (Cannes Film Festival 2011)